A man accused of driving an SUV through an Illinois mall earlier this month has been charged with terrorism, police say
Javier Garcia, 22, is also charged with criminal damage to property in the incident in Schaumburg, a suburb of Chicago.Javier Garcia is facing a terrorism charge after police said he drove an SUV through an Illinois shopping mall.Police said Garcia drove an SUV through an entrance of the Woodfield Mall on September 20. Video of the incident shows the vehicle moving slowly through the mall's interior.
Terrorism chargeWolf, the police chief, said in the hours after Garcia's arrest there was"no indication that this incident is related to any type of terrorist act." Garcia, of nearby Palatine, Illinois, did not have any connection to the mall and was not angry, Wolf said. Garcia was in the mall"for a very short period of time" before the SUV was driven through the entrance, but there was no evidence he was casing the shopping center, Wolf said.
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